Te Mata Cape Crest Sauvignon Blanc 2013
Wine Specs
Vintage
2013
Sugar
Dry
Acid
7.2
pH
3.1
Bottling Date
1753-01-01
Alcohol %
14
In Stock
Tasting Note
Aroma
Ripe lime, white flowers and lemon curd.
ClosureCork
GrapeSauvignon Blanc
Grape Variety
85% sauvigon blanc, 9% semillon, 6% sauvignon gris.
Maturation
Mixture of new and seasoned French oak barrels.
Oaked0
Palate
The palate shows great concentration of guava, toast and smoked figs, with great acid cut and precision.
VarietalV_SAUVIGNONBLANC
Vinification
The separate parcels were each destemmed and lightly crushed, then cooled before a brief period of skin contact. Following pressing and cold-settling, they were run to a mixture of new and seasoned French oak barrels for fermentation. The resulting wines were aged on lees, with regular stirring, for a further eight months before blending in January 2014. The blend was then fined and bottled in February 2014.
RegionHawkes Bay - New Zealand
Region CodeINZAHAWKES
Region Notes
State
Subregion
WinemakerPeter Cowley
Wine StyleWhite (Crisp Fresh)
Joelle Thompson
0
2014/08/02
Wines of the Week, Your Weekend, The Christchurch Press, 2 August 2014
This is one of the best wines from Hawke's Bay and has been a star since its first trial vintage in 1986; it is fermented in oak, hence the high price and depth of flavour, which softens sauvignon blanc's outspoken personality.
Bob Campbell MW
93
2015/02/22
Bob Campbell Wine Review, 2015
Weighty sauvignon blanc with
nectarine, apple, mineral and
slight gunflint characters.
Weighty, complex wine that’s
about as good as it gets in
Hawke’s Bay.
Cameron Douglas
5
2016/02/22
Cameron Douglas Wine Reviews, July 2014
A great wine to rival some northern hemisphere counterparts.
Decanter
91
2016/11/01
October 2016
A very different style to Marlborough - a vibrant nose and rich, fleshy palate with great weight and concentration.
Very ripe, almost tropical, fruit style but with a long, bone dry finish.
Cameron Douglas
5
2016/02/22
Cameron Douglas Wine Reviews, July 2014
A great wine to rival some northern hemisphere counterparts.
Decanter
91
2016/11/01
October 2016
A very different style to Marlborough - a vibrant nose and rich, fleshy palate with great weight and concentration.
Very ripe, almost tropical, fruit style but with a long, bone dry finish.
Sam Kim
95
2015/02/22
Wine Orbit Te Mata Showcase Summary, 2015
It is intensely aromatic on the nose displaying grapefruit, flint, peach and dried herb characters with subtle nutty complexity. The palate is concentrated and compact, and offers wonderful explosion of flavours, finishing superbly long and mouth-watering. At its best: 2017 to 2025.
Mike Bennie
94
2016/02/16
The Winefront, 17 January 2015
There’s some Sauvignon Gris and Semillon in the mix. The wine has been made more or less identically since its inception. Aged on lees for around eight months in new and old oak.
Pretty perfume showing the comely curves of oak handling and lees work, sweet with marzipan wafts and spiked with toasty notes buoyed with fresh cut stone fruit. Smells fancy. Tightly wound in the palate, drags long with some puffs of chalk-like minerality, shows some cedary flavour with green apple acidity frisking up the wine. Fruit sweetness rolls right through and out the back end. Classy stuff.
Raymond Chan
0
2015/02/22
Raymond Chan Wine Review, 2015
Elegantly proportioned, with ripe aromas of green
stonefruits, herbs, nectarines and mineral notes.
Ripe white stonefruit flavours with delicate richness
and succulence, balanced by very fine acidity. A
luscious creaminess, with finesse, ripeness and
length. 19/20
Mark Henderson
0
2015/04/01
Otago Daily Times, 1 April 2015
Startingly different from the classic Marlborough rendition. A powerful and complex wine with guava to the fore, smoky, brambly, with fabulous richness and length.
Lester Jesberg
0
2013/02/22
Winewise, March 2015
Fresh, ripe, slightly grassy sauvignon blanc aroma and flavour is seamlessly integrated with subtle oak and lees influences. The palate is very satisfying and textural.
Wine Specs
Vintage
2013
Sugar
Dry
Acid
7.2
pH
3.1
Bottling Date
1753-01-01
Alcohol %
14
Wine Profile
Awards
Bob Campbell MW
93
2015/02/22
Bob Campbell Wine Review, 2015
Weighty sauvignon blanc with
nectarine, apple, mineral and
slight gunflint characters.
Weighty, complex wine that’s
about as good as it gets in
Hawke’s Bay.
Winemaker Notes
This wine is a wonderful example of Hawke's Bay's remarkable 2013 growing season, already described by the UK's Decanter magazine as "the stuff of legends".